Restoring The Archimedes Palimpsest by Will Noel, Ep25 

This was the most awesome project ever. I worked on it during a summer internship at SLAC and got to participate in scanning the last pages of the palimpsest. So much fun!

Just incredible, Will. I found this video so hopeful 13 yrs ago. But now, the ignorant have ascended in the US and UK. ...pretty hopeless times.

Damn, it's amazing how Noel managed to amass that much information in only 5 minutes. I read the book by Noel and Netz back in 2009 and it had a tremendous impact on me. I can't describe how happy I am that there are people out there who can actually think "let's make this available to all of mankind... for free." What a spectacular frame of mind. Bless be the owner of the palimpsest, who made it available for research and the public view, and everyone else involved in this restoration project.

Just started watching this and what an amazing thing it is. I remember seeing a tv program about it in the late 80s I think, might have been a bbc QED program. Anyway what amazed me most was the fact that Archimedes was beginning to use infinitesimals which are the beginnings of calculus. Calculus wasn’t fully developed until the late 17th century, Archimedes was living in around 250BC I think. Mind blowing….what a mind!

Deeply fascinating. I love this, from history to science to recovery of lost human knowledge and technology of bringing this back to life

Fantastic work. I always apreciate when new aspects of history is uncovered

this is so incredible it moved me to tears, I kid not Thanks

This is incredibly, supremely awesome.

Winner of the best ignite video i've seen so far.. AMAZING! issuu mention at end too :)

'science'. my mind is fully blown. thank you!

Wonderful talk. I don't like the Ignites and TEDs since they usually end up being all pretence and no content, but this was something else. Go Will Noel!

loved this

thank you for the rest of my life.

Superb, I discovered the Stomacion by accident when searching fvor someting else,and via Wiki found this great 5 minute talk.... It makes one wonder how many early Islamic texts may have been written over even earlier Greek ones, and lost when ISIS burned the library at Mosul in Iraq...

Haha, thanks! I try and tell myself that every time I remember. ;)

Yes, this was a great exhibit, but the Walters had limited imagination about showing it electronically so that it wouldn't be confined to four walls. They should adapt trade show technology to create a compelling online exhibit!.

0:44 to skip introduction

@unapologeticmind It has to say it all in 5 minutes.. that is why he speaks fast and that is why people sometimes laugh. I agree it is istructive but it is a show.